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127: Unfinished Canvas - The North Cascades Disappearance

127: Unfinished Canvas - The North Cascades Disappearance

Update: 2025-11-04
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It was supposed to be a peaceful setting—an artist setting up his easel by the roadside, surrounded by the wild, glacier-cut beauty of Washington’s North Cascades. But for days, his car would sit abandoned. His canvas, unfinished. And the man himself—gone. What happened to Alexander Pisch?

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127: Unfinished Canvas - The North Cascades Disappearance

127: Unfinished Canvas - The North Cascades Disappearance

Maegan Moaratty and Danielle Falagan